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Ex. AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-059 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

Thruway Authority emergency toll procedures: cash toll collection suspended and converted to license-plate billing on the ticketed system effective Mar. 22, 2020 at approximately 8 p.m. (announced Mar. 20, 2020)

Thruway Authority Announces Emergency Toll Procedures (conversion of cash tolls to toll billing by license plate during the COVID-19 response)

New York State Thruway Authority (Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll) · New York State Thruway Authority (public benefit corporation; 570-mile Thruway system) (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
New York State Thruway Authority (public benefit corporation; 570-mile Thruway system) · New York
Level
State
Authority
Pub. Auth. Law § 354(5), (13) (Authority may make rules governing use of the thruway and fix and collect tolls) and § 361
Issued
2020-03-20 Mar. 20, 2020
Effective
2020-03-22 20:00 (read as 2020-03-22)
End
2020-06-03 23:59 (cash collection resumed, Ex. 067); systemwide cashless tolling made permanent Nov. 14, 2020 (Ex. 068) (read as 2020-06-03)
In force
Mar. 22, 2020 to June 3, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Workplace rulesOther
Addressees
  • all motorists and motor carriers using the Thruway's ticketed system; toll collectors
Functions reached
  • OP toll operations on the State's principal interstate corridor (I-87/I-90) converted to plate billing; toll collectors withdrawn from booths
  • WF
  • CB motorists and interstate motor carriers (billing by mail)
Character
context
Collection
Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE

Operative words

"[The] Thruway Authority today announced emergency toll procedures will be in place effective Sunday, March 22 at approximately 8 p.m., at cash toll lanes on the Thruway's ticketed-system. This plan will convert the collection of cash tolls to toll billing by the license plate during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) response in New York State. The procedures will be in place until further notice." ("We are implementing these emergency toll procedures for the health and safety of our employees and motorists," Thruway Authority Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll said.)

Enforcement

Pub. Auth. Law § 361-a (toll violations); 21 NYCRR part 101 (tolls by mail; registration suspension for unpaid tolls under Veh. & Traf. Law § 510)

Notes

A State public authority's emergency COVID-19 order changing the manner of commerce on the Thruway; parallel instruments were issued by the Pennsylvania (Ex. 051), New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Maine, Florida and other toll authorities in the same week (not separately saved).

Retrieval note

Authority release rendered to PDF.

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